Just curious if Amazon strategy is having any effect.

Right now, 7 out of 10 digital buyers use Itunes (70% market share)
1 out of 10 digital buyers use Amazon MP3 (10% market share)

It's cheap because Amazon use MP3 as a loss leader. A loss leader s a product sold at a low price (at cost or below cost) to stimulate other profitable sales.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers...al-music-track

Nope. The ".m4a" status makes me feel classy.

Perhaps I will. iTunes has been a huge bitch as of late.

No.

I might, however with my faves I will always be purchasing via iTunes. #1 on iTunes >>>>>> #1 on Amazon.

RIGHT?!

Nope because they don't have Britney for .69 cents.

LMAO, same here.

do you work for amazon ?

nope

just a stan of their new prices.

Cheaper MP3 means you sell more and deter piracy.

The biggest legal MP3 market isn't the USA. It's South Korea. Their weekly top 100 downloads > >>> USA top 100 downloads because MP3 is about $0.20-$0.25 on average there.

Click to see the sale figures since it doesn't show...http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...mg/5546607.jpg

Top 10 Downloads for the week ending April 23, 2011 (april 17 to april 23)


#2 Park Bom "Don't Cry" sold 424,374 MP3 in 3 days.

In 2010, they have 170 one million sellers.

http://www.gaonchart.co.kr/main/sect...2010.list.gaon

#170 sold 1,005,756 mp3



If MP3 are about $0.30 in the USA, we could have a song sell over 1 million in a week on a very frequent basis. And this will get A LOT MORE people to buy music. Piracy would be down too.

If Amazon wants to use MP3 as loss leader for their other businesses (books, electronics, dvds, clothes, furniture, video games etc...), it's great for the music industry and great for MP3 buyers.

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Nope. I recently switched all my mp3s to mp4. Much better quaility and I love it.

Gerls i stan for m4a.

and Amazon is not as classy as iTunes

AMAZON ***** ON ITUNES.

Price (albums at 3 freaking dollars and 99 freaking cents)

Customer Service (they are the most helpful)

Quality (It's the same!)

no. it really isn't.

This is like Windows vs. Mac we know which one is cheaper buuuuuut....

for those who ask about quality,

64kbps in m4a = 128 kbps in mp3
256kbps in m4a = 512 kbps in mp3

m4a wins on quality, but 320 kbps mp3 is identical to 256 mp4 using earphone but on Speaker i'm not sure.

There should be no difference in quality between iTunes and Amazon. If you hear difference it's because you want to hear difference, or the mp3 was encoded badly.

Amazon is to buy my south park toys and overseas CDS and DVDs. so no